Tribal Chick

I am fascinated by women's jewellery in Europe 1000-3000 years ago. Using replicas or digital-constructs I like to make photographs which show off these ancient fashions in an erotic way.

The last women on Earth to wear a style of clothing that was worn all over Europe were the Beduoin. This was a very wide cylinder of material, often called a "peplos". It was fastened at each shoulder with a brooch, and the sides hung down loosely barely, or sometimes not, concealing the breasts. Around 1910 French and German photographers photographed these women and produced many erotic postcards. Here are some of them, and they encapsulate what I am trying to do

Bedouin Woman	Bedouin-2	Bedouin-3	Bedouin-4

The first step is photographing models wearing a peplos which is fastened with real, but replica jewellery. The peplos here is handwoven wool from India. The following are some of these initial shots.

Radinia-1

Alexa-1

Cvetelina-1

Next step is the hard bit - I construct copies of real old jewellery from arcaheological records using 3D software on a computer, trying to make them look real, then add them to a photograph.

Brooch-1

Brooch

Neckrings

Jana	Iva	Lenka	Alexa
Mariana	Inna	Svetlozara	Yasmin